Does that food look gross? Maybe I need a food stylist? Despite appearances, all the food turned out good with the rolls and the peas as better than good (the rice needs more umph!).
These are the peas cooking. My daughter says they seem like baby food. She's not so fond of that!
Sweet and spicy carrots were quite yummy, but my daughter said they tasted like carrots in lemonade and she really didn't like that combination. I substituted creme de cassis for the Elderberry liquor.
Potatoes were tasty and had a nice, crispy crust on them. I did not peel the potatoes. See a picture of the potatoes below.
The ribs, well, they were an adventure starting with the new grill which I couldn't get on only to discover after much grumbling that the dumb thing was on already! Okay, first hurdle overcome, now I had to figure out how to put on the hickory chips without a built in smoker on the grill. AFter doing some reading on it, I soaked the chips for 20 minutes then wrapped them in an "open roll" of tin foil which I took to mean, wrapping them with tin foil but leaving the top part open. While they were soaking, I preheated the grill to "indirect medium" which meant (I hope) preheating the grill with all three knobs on, then turning of the middle and turning the top and bottom to medium. I put the meat in the middle (according to the Weber directions), put in a pan of water, shut the lid and ran back to re-read the directions. It didn't give a temperature for the ribs so I wasn't sure I had indirect medium. And they seemed to be cooking too fast and the temperature was 400. So I reduced the heat somewhat. Still, I think they cooked too fast. One smaller rack was done in an hour (the recipe said 1.5-2 hours). The second rack I way overcooked. So, this was not a big success. Hopefully, I'll have better luck (or have learned something) next time (see picture below).
The blackberry pie was great! I'll post the pie crust recipe in recipes. It turned out beautifully flaky. We topped it with whipped cream.
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